Mourn Quotes - Page 6

• Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I know that this happens, I see it happening, I even feel myself, sometimes, standing at some temporal crossroads, some distinct moment at which I can walk away and keep it from happening, but I never do. I grab at everything, I end up with nothing, and then I feel bereft. I mourn for the loss of something I never even had.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Jesus, Fall, Loss

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• Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Rich, Poor

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• She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.

  Tanith Lee

  Sleep, Essence, Profound

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

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• I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can't have everything.

  Warren Beatty

  Loss, Screens

  The Disc Dish Interview, www.discdish.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sea, Forever, Shadow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He was giving up on keeping me alive, letting nature–or rather mob justice–take its course. When he returned, and I was dead, he wouldn't hold anyone responsible. He would not mourn. All this I could hear in those three words.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Giving Up, Justice, Three

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• The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing with our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Brother, Kings, Good Friend

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• You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Grief, Grieving, Littles

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• I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Loss, Childhood, Lost

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.239, Penguin UK

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• Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and graced with courage, say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say it was a dream, your ears deceived you: don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Goodbye, Dream, Long

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “The God Abandons Anthony”

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• After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

  Scott Turow

  Missing, Different, Citizens

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• Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

  Clarice Lispector

  Knows

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• I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is greif and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.

  Christopher Paolini

  Fighting, Use, Eragon

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.489, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.

  David Levithan

  Animal, People, September 11

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.77, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

  Henri Nouwen

  Lonely, Hurt, Pain

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.

  Neil Gaiman

  Brother, Pain, Men

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare.

  Chris Brogan

  Victory, Celebrate, Small Victories

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• No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.

  Alethea Kontis

  Broken Heart, Men, Grieving

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's why it's hard, I think, to rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. I love that line from the Bible, but it's so incredibly difficult sometimes, because when you've got reason to rejoice, you forget what it's like to mourn, even if you swear you never will. And because when you're mourning, the fact that someone close to you is rejoicing seems like a personal affront.

  Shauna Niequist

  Thinking, Mourning, Facts

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• Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Spiritual, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics

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• O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down
  Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn
  Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
  Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!
  
  The hills tell each other, and the listening
  Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned
  Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth,
  And let thy holy feet visit our clime.
  
  Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds
  Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste
  Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls
  Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

  William Blake

  Morning, Spring, Eye

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.18, Delphi Classics

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• A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen.

  Judith Butler

  Fall, Gay, Mourning

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and 150,000 people were killed in one night. Those people had to mourn and they had to rebuild their city right away.

  Patti Smith

  Loss, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

  Leighton Meester

  Thinking, Healthy, How You Feel

  "Outtakes from Leighton Meester's February Cover Shoot". Slide 4, www.seventeen.com. January 03, 2011.

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• How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.

  Helen Keller

  Grief, Ears

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